Nehaveigur

Notes on reading, science and the outdoors

Reading

On books, reading, and writers.

  • The Battle of the Bulge

    To hell with you, ignoble paunch, abhorrent in my sight! I gaze at your rotundity, and savage is my frown. I’ll rub you and I’ll…

  • The Righteous Mind

    I know I’m late to the party, but Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind, published in 2012, contains some important ideas. Haidt’s assertion that “anyone who values…

  • Paul Auster Has Died

    Paul Auster is dead. I keep returning to two of his novels, Mr. Vertigo and Moon Palace. Their protagonists, even though they are fictional, are…

  • Tracking

    Excerpts from Jim Harrison’s third-person autobiography Tracking, which appeared in his collection The Summer He Didn’t Die. About rivers: The last few days in the…

  • The Stamp of our Parents: It’s on a postcard with changing scenes

    Whose history can ever reveal very much? In my view Americans put too much emphasis on their pasts as a way of defining themselves, which…

  • Daniel Dennett Has Died

    Philosopher and scientist Daniel Dennett is dead. His book on Intuition Pumps, or thought experiments, is one I hope to return to here.